In hot pursuit of language in prehistory : essays in the four fields of anthropology : in honor of Harold Crane Fleming

Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming's major focus on language -- he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue -- the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming's extensive fie.